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PA Bill Number: SR244

Title: Directing the Joint State Government Commission to establish the Task Force on Child Protection in the Digital Age.

Description: A Resolution directing the Joint State Government Commission to establish the Task Force on Child Protection in the Digital Age.

Last Action: Referred to Communications & Technology

Last Action Date: Mar 12, 2026

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Agents Resisted Weapons Tracking :: 06/16/2011

Federal agents battled their supervisors to stop a government program that kept illicit guns in circulation to trace them to weapons traffickers, a new congressional report shows.

Some agents even worried that a gun tracked, then lost, in the program might have been used in the January shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. That didn't turn out to be the case, but other guns tracked by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives did end up at other crime scenes in the U.S. and Mexico.

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